I just want to add a little addendum to my previous post... As many knitters before me, as a beginner, I went a little crazy buying yarn. Before I realized I had more yarn that I could knit in a lifetime (or so I thought at the time) and, what's worst, due to inexperience, some of my buys were truly underwhelming. The result is that, for years now, I've been trying hard to destash. I still buy yarn occasionally, for mainly two reasons: (1) I start a project with yarn I've got in my stash, but run out and must buy more to finish, which is okay, I'm still destashing, (2) I occasionally get too tempted to knit a specific project for which I don't have appropriate yarn, which is not as okay and I really try to avoid it. I can't complain too much, because the truth is that the challenge of designing for the yarn I have available has been fun. I love a challenge and I love the way limitation feeds creativity. And the real good news about 2022 is that I've knitte...
